Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-03-24
THE NEWS.

the jackson (O) Standard, Is dead.
Whitelaw Reid and family are the
guests of his mother, at Cedsrville. o.
Sunset Cox is getting we'll and was
out to the theater Saturday afternoon.
Several summer residences and hotels
were burned at Chautauqua, n Y, Sum
day night.
Missouri has repealed the law prohih>
iting the manufacturing or selling of
olemargarine.
Near Fort Wayne, Ind. John Barret
shot and killed Charles Kickley, while
firing at target.
Six boys were discharged from the
Soldiers Orphans Home at Xenia, O.,
for insubordination.
George G Sickles, father of General
Daniel E Sickles, was buried at New
Rochelle. n Y. Sunday.
The Pavey amendmen relative to the
so+called gallon agencies has been made
part of the Dow la ~ in Ohio.
The Union Labor party of Cincinnati
have nominated VIM E Stephenson for
Mayor and put up full city ticket.
Mrs Emily May Eastman. of Walnut
Hills, Cincinnati, died from an over
dose of chloroform, taken to alleviate
pain.
Ten MormOns sent to the House or
Correction at Detroit on cumulative
sentences have been released under the
supreme courts ruling that such sentenr
ces are not legal.
The U 5 grand jury has found bill
against Guy Webber. of Cincinnati,
charging him with using the mails to
defraud in connection with tile st. An
drews Bay Land company.
| Senator Sherman had an enthusiastic recep-
tion in Birmingham, Monday.
Fremont has secured natural gas BY pipe
line from distance of 20 miles.
W. F. Bracken, late resident Of Colum
bus, O., committed suicide at Orleans, Neb.
The wife of Hon Elihu b Washburn, er
Minister to France, died at Chicago, Friday.
Mother Euphemia, head Of the sisters of
charity in America, died at Emmettsburg, Md.
Moses Miller, a coIored man Of Lynchburg,
Va, choaked his wife to death and cut his
own throat.
The woman suffragists of Ohio will hold
their state convention at Cleveland on May
"a, 25 and 26.
The opinion seems to prevail in Washing
ton that the President will call session OF
congress in October.
Hon. w. D. Morgan, once editor of the
Newark Advocate, and ex-auditor OF the
state of Ohio, is dead.
Summerfield, s. c., had the worst tarth~
quake shock on Friday evening at 6 O'Clock
that the town had felt for two months.
The breaking of the ice gorges in the Miss
souri, river resulted in great destruction OF
property at Bismsrk and Msnden, Oak.
A heavy frost is reported throughout the
northern and middle parts of Florida, and in
South Carolina, injuring the fruits badly,
The socialists of Indianapolis made dem-
onstration on Sunday night and the police
we're obliged to be present and prevent riot
The report of the investigation of the
southern Indiana prison is finding it's way
into print. 1t tells horrible tale of inhu
msnity and murder.
The Ohio legislature passed bill permits
ing Hamilton county to submit to the electors
the question of adding $25, 900 to the taxes
for statue of Gen. VIM. Henry Harrison.
DR.. q. T. Sewers, a prominent Washing
ton physician, says Cleveland is becoming
alarmingly fst, and unless there is a change
in his mode Of living, he will never finish his
term.
The Cleveland newspapers have distribu-
ted collection Of $2,055 TO Captain Hoehn
and So, $50 to the family Of Detective Hullis
gan, who was killed by the ruff1ans at RAJ
VIENNA.
Harry L. Adams, book>keeper of the Even>
ing Star Office, Washington. D. a., is MISS
ing. His accounts are all in good shape, and
his family are greatly distressed about his
absence.
Joseph Roy, of Merrillon, Wis, has been
appointed chief clerk in the post office de-
partment at Washington, in place of Mr.. |
Nash, made superintendent Of the railway
mail service.
At Troy, Tenn, a masked mob broke into
the Jail and compelled the jailer to produce
VIM Hardy, & mulatto, charged with the
murder of white man last fall, and hanged
him to tree.
At Whitebread Hill, /. T., man named |
Foster was shooting at a mouse, when ball
struck can of powder, exploding it and
killing his two children and seriously injur
ing himself and wife.
Mayor Harrison. of Chicago, has given re-
markable reasons for refusing denomination. |
He says, among other things, that he would |
not dare be half days ride from the city |
with the present spirit of anarchy brewing.
The names of Thomas NJ Cooley, of Mich~
igan; VIM r MORRISON, of Illinois; W Ii
Bragg, OF Alabama, and ] D Herman, OF
New York, are given out as four OF the par
ties whom the President has chosed for the |
Interstate Commerce Commission.
Ira Shafer, prominent criminal lawyer, !
engaged in the Doodle alderman trials in New
York, was caricaturtured by the World, and
opened up on the newspapers in court in
such wild and violent manner that the court
was obliged to stop the excitement.
A mass meeting of the Irish national leauge
was held in Cooper Union Monday night to
protest against coercion enactments. Charles
Dana, of the New York Sun, presided. |
Letters we're read from Hons Sam Randall,
S Cox, Roscoe Conkling and others.
Mr. VIM L Royal, counsel for the English
council of foreign bondholders, and repre-
senting their affairs in connection with Vir-
ginias debt, was convinced, at Richmond, in |